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This took a little hacking around to get it sounding this good - a couple of edits to both my drum part and karma's guitar to keep the flow just about going. I added a bit more compression to the drums to bring the level down, hopefully fitting into the mix better, before mastering. Then added some fairly gentle compression, boosting the level.
Six and something minutes of music.
It can take a long time for me to relax some days. This was an hour into my jamming time. Clunk clunk clunk... and... ah, more or less settled in several minutes into this 16 minute piece. Thanks to 1234 (keys), cyberdoc (keys/bass) and TaNya (flute) for putting up with me - I really did need it.
This jam was looking for the spark of inspiration. It took a while to come. It doesn't make it during this section...
Whilst not the most inspirational, at least the jam has settled into having an identifiable vibe now. Very relaxing (with the occasional surprise to keep interest).
Here's a track using Analogue Drums' RockStock, for that big, big sound. kurt (guitar) said "Why don't you get songs like this on the radio?" at the end. I guess he liked it, too!
Another of those times something quite wonderful happened. I think the others had just started and I was lucky enough to be able to join in. It turned into a wonderful bit of jazz.
Free jazz doesn't come easy and this does, admittedly, get decidedly repetitive at points (okay, "points" might be understating it). However, it's well worth listening through to the end, I think!
baltan_bba alone on guitar, me trying to not to be too boring without completely losing the click... too often.
baltan_bba joined by jama4man on bass and variously anon, PHIL__D and yota on additional guitars.
A long, fun jam that sort of just fell into place (slightly trimmed at the start to remove the "falling"...).
pppp on bass here, sounding really nice. I started on the upbeat and, unfortunately, ninbot decided to skip that interval on the recording, so this launches in rather suddenly.
This is nearly 30 minutes of goodness. Thanks to everyone who took part. Each of the players here is contributing something unique to the jam as it evolves and moves forward.
Unfortunately, this needed a lot of work to get it into this state. I've chopped several parts out and had to duplicate a couple of my drum bits into gaps (whilst I was chatting). But it's worth sharing, I think.
About time I managed a decent blues track. The mix isn't great, I'm afraid.
Cool, chilled and mostly mellow, a slow evolving piece this. Massive amount of work to get the levels up, though, plus denoising pip, DC offset removal on hedbox (probably needed it on the earlier track, too). Once that was done, though, I just left it, with the natural fade at the end.
Here's a fairly straight-ahead rocker with not too much surprise. It needed a bit of work on the levels, though.
This is starting to get a little more unusual (for me). DirtyDeeds has a loop going so, to make life more interesting, we're having to work a bit harder. Luiz Linhares on bass towards the end -- if you can't hear it, get better speakers/'phones ;).
And now for something starting to sound even more proggy... DD looping, me playing three over four for a while. That put too many of the others off, so I gave in and went back to four. Luiz and Roger both on bass, working nicely together.
OK now! This is prog through and through. Really cool loop from DirtyDeeds (hopefully it's CC) prompting some chaotic responses which phase through some interesting results. Great fun but very hard work.
Cracking jam! A session with a blues feel moved towards rock. This edit has a wonderful build up to Doc's entry. The levels were all over the place, needing a bit of mixing effort to get it fixed up. With quite a lot of help from some people at KVRaudio's Music Café, I think it's now sounding pretty good!
I don't often get to share an unedited track but here's one that's worth hearing in full!
I have no idea what genre this is. A bit progressive and dark. Takes a while to gel but that's its nature.
I really enjoyed this, on the edge of chaos as it is most of the way. It's got a feel of 70s prog rock about it.
This rocks. Took a long time to get going and fell apart quite quickly, so the edit is short.
Another short snippet that was going well till it hit a stumble.
A short jam... it fell apart just afterwards.
Here's a somewhat adjusted jam with Oliver1977 and Kman. You'll need decent bass reproduction to hear Oliver.
radar was trying out some looping device. For a long time. This is a short excerpt. Track levels adjusted in Reaper; noise removal and overall levels adjusted in Audacity.
shaftpolls joined in with some sounds towards the end of this further edit. radar was clearly starting to get the hang of the looper.
And DidiDodo joined on bass, with shaftpolls briefly singing. radar plays along with his loop as the piece ends. This is substantially re-levelled but could still be better.
You may recognise this. Or not. Well, if you do, then I guess it's not so bad. If you don't then it's okay, too...
Something from the road. Probably blue.
Well, it's traditional when making a racket. This is over onto RockStock.
A change of personnel and a change of style. A pretty mellow number.
Cyberdog joined us and the guitars got a little more raucous but that doesn't stop the fun.
A faster track, just titi left to end the session.
The BPI: it's an important factor as this jam goes to show.
OK, so it sounds a bit like Lynyrd Skynyrd... But it's just so good. Relax, chill, enjoy.
Some guys do jazz. Pretty loose stuff...
The mix on this is bad all the way, I'm afraid. It rambles a lot through various places. But it's quite interesting...
What could be better on a Sunday afternoon than tea and jam? Here's a whole afternoon of jams with tea!
Here is the first of two cuts from another jam with tea, ns_kit7/ndk Rock Kit with sticks sounding a bit over the top...
Here's the second cut of the pair, moving onto ns_kit7/ndk Rock Kit with brushes (and a different Kick). It fitted into the piece a lot better.
Third of two cuts -- well, okay, third cut from the same recording but it's in a different style.
Moving on, another variation on jamming with tea.
Here is a 9m23 exercise in trance-inducing mellowness. DaMNeD has recorded a short loop and is jamming very simply over the top; I'm trying to keep things equally simple (hard for me!).
Short but a pretty nice groove... let's see if there's a longer version, too!
Here is the long, smooth version of the jazzy little snip. As ever, as more people arrive, it gets a bit chaotic, so I trimmed at an appropriate point.
This edit is all about anticipation of the climactic ending. There is lots of build up. Lots. It goes on and on building up. It gets there in the end. There's a lovely afterglow, too...
A long jam resulted in a number of edits. Here's the first.
This is the second excerpt from a long jam session.
Continuing shortly after the previous two cuts, this changes mood, initially toward something more mellow, morphing through a vaguely psychedelic rock sound to a crisper edged sound then gets a lot heavier toward the end.
The mellow mood returns as the speed cuts to half time. Some problems with the harmony as the bpi was set to 16 when 32 was needed. I'd changed over to Analogue Drums' RockStock to get more ambience.
A continuation of the mellow number with the bpi pushed up to 32. I'm not sure it helped. The guitars sound like a pair of cats having a scream at each other, really... This is still another edit from the long jam set with possibly more to come.
I don't remember who it was but someone said "Start playing 16th, pj". Your wish, etc... This was the somewhat rockier number that resulted. This is the last clip from the first long set.
This edit, from a second long recording, is all about the intro...
Dave knew what he wanted. This takes a little while to settle in and I don't think really ever burns as well as it could have - the group didn't seem to sit comfortably somehow. Still, a nice little tune.
Here's a little bit of light evening jazz with tea and jama4man. As ever, ns_kit7 rock kit.
I felt ns_kit7 rock kit was a bit heavy for jazz, so swapped over to the brush version. Nice sweeps.
You can blame all this on tea. Although 180bpm was too fast, so I had to run off and play a little slower. Great sounding bass here from taku; jama really could have done with being louder. ("The mix isn't great" ;)...)
More instrumentation on this track than the previous one and a somewhat better mix.
Best jam session I've been in for ages - excellent sounds all around, a good mix and a great tune. Thanks to everyone involved!
Here's a really laid back sound. mjanek20 claims not to be a bass player, just he likes the instrument. He sounds like a bass player to me. Texaco is making decent sounds on guitar, too. Good fun.
More bass please, I could have said. MatMat turned up and decided to add some, which was cool. And at this speed, we needed keeping cool!
MatMat over onto NIB3 now. Takes a minute (into this edit) to start to gel properly but turns into a very nice jam. Everyone seem to want to end around the same point... we just, uh, sort of didn't make it tidy...
Here's something pretty funky. I don't remember if it was aiko or me who started the piece but tea joining in with a lovely funky sound ensured we kept going in that direction. Really nice.
A deep bass line, so you'll need speakers with good low end, or you'll not hear bernd's playing.
The auto-mix has decided Wilhelm should be on the right of the sound stage, unfortunately.
maddin on looped acoustic guitar with contributions from his girlfriend adding into the wonderful sound, me on drums as ever, plus Doc and titi on electric guitars.
Benoit on looped and live guitar sounds, CoCo joining in after a while with a touch of DaMNeD, too. Really in a couple of parts but left unedited so you get the complete experience!
DaMNed has a backing track playing and it's just so catchy you can't help but play along. I started just with my hands on the pads but by the point of this edit, I've swapped to sticks and swapped kits. LV is going at it on guitar too! This is topped'n'tailed in Reaper, then a touch of mastering in Audacity.
maddin with the looped and live acoustic guitar sounds, NickP coming in on piano, this is a long and very mellow track. Edited to remove just the first minute where it got going.
NickP on his organ (plus sax and band sounds) and marcus on bass, I think. Getting some bluesy sounds on. Not sure if anyone else joined toward the end.
Simple jazz guitar from joe. Brushes to start with then a little more full on drumming from me.
Upbeat and dynamic with many flavours - good fun. Nice electic viola, too!
Big-sounding, with a strong hint of the seventies.
Nice bit of overdubbing going on by maddin. My playing's not too bad once I get going, either. Shame the dsl line dropped out - though it gives a nice break... Ninjam's Autojam seems to have run out of tape at the end, too!
Continuation with polmac coming onboard (and someone with some noisy cables). I had to go before the final death-throes...
Epic keys from cyberdog, with a nice outro - I missed who it was on guitar.
Excellent bass from Nacho making this special, with Aaron taking the lead all over the place.
Tonal interplay between lead and bass here is very nice. Gets a bit messy at the end.
Metal fun.
Who needs a lead? Three bassists and a drummer is all it takes for some cool jamming.
Free jamming (I'm a bit loud to start with); ns_kit7 if you don't recognise it. I had to leave (28:10) before the end. Complete jam, warts and all, though :).
Great start and pretty together all the way through. 9/10 as the end is raggedy :).
The timing might not be perfect but this is quite fun. I'm not entirely sure how CCNCSA-compliant the tune is, though.
Could have done with more from Dirtydeeds on this: Count Fuzzball and I are doing a great backing track... Gets nicely silly toward the end, to reward you sticking with it :). (NI Abbey Road Late 60s - give away jingly bits...)
Ripping bass work from baldy. Naturally I'm not underplaying..! This is Analogue Drums RockStock.
Burning blues, once it kicks off. With a kit change part way through (NI Late 60s to Acoustic Drums RockStock; on playback, I prefer the former).
Frenetic, fast, furious! 140bpm goodness! I think we all did very well to hold it together for that long.
A slow burner, this one. Pretty mellow for the first four minutes -- and then it really takes off like a rocket! It's a really fantastic sound, too. Special thanks to everyone else playing: tea, Bassplayer, fra, will.
Doc and hodog making out with some cool sounds (background hiss from opus), with cyberdog joining in on keys later.
Cool and sixties. What more do you want? Eventually comes together. tak on bass, cyberdog on keys.
cyberdog on keys, tak on bass. lead? hodog, I think. Mix is a bit rough (I'm loud in places!). Ends with a trainwreck :)
Funky... funkier than I could manage! Keys here I think was stefan on the first half, then back to cyberdog. Oh - and really keep going to the end, it's wonderful playing by everyone else!
I arrived in NINJAM and Doc and hodog were making some nice sounds, so I thought I'd join in. cyberdog turned up a little later... and we just kept going. I've slightly remixed and mastered this, trimming the end and dropping a couple of the players.
Jazz -- with a bad mix and a bit of crackling -- but plenty of what makes music good!
What starts as a more innovative piece that manages not to fall in a heap, turns in a less original, but still pretty cool direction. One of those jams where you really can imagine everyone was playing in the same room, the way the parts weave together.
Interesting beat in the opening to this one. Fairly mellow and upbeat, with a good groove.
Really nice - if all too brief - jam with will. And it sort of finishes together, always a bonus!
150 bpm madness! ndk (ns_kit7)'s Rock Kit burning up with the rest of the crew. Eventually we had to give in and cut the bpm but it was fun.
A nice example of how a jam develops as more players join in. This is Acoustic Drums RockStock (lovely room sound but the hi-hat isn't great).
This had got in flight just before the start of this edit, so it's pretty together. There's a few silly bits all around but it's a pretty solid number. (This is Native Instruments Abbey Road Late 60s kit.)
A very 80s-sounding - almost soap-theme - piece, featuring a very cool bunch of jammers and me on ns_kit7's Rock Kit with brushes.
Make like a drum machine, he tells me... Not too bad for a few minutes, I reckon... but it went horribly wrong after this! The later part of the original (left off here) is "good in parts".
Percussive. Just maybe a little bit silly... or mad... :)
Completely bongos? It's no more sane once they go, either!
This one is fun and a bit more structured. Just wait for the end...
Some lovely guitar work on here. Still gets very silly...
Turn it up to 11 - sometimes, you need to make a noise. Acoustic Drums RockStock is ideal. I think this was tea and anon on guitars, with anon staying on to the end.
This should be a chart topper. jeje singing again. Please ignore the slight feedback and listen to that voice. Continued great bass and lead guitar performances, too.
A funky bass line that I take a little while to get into. Stick around though, it's worth hearing it come together. (NI AR Late 60s)
A nice old time jazz piece. Really nice bass and lead work. (ns_kit7 Rock kit with brushes)
Mellow and funky - and jeje had turned up to sing.
A deep bass line from alex, with Analogue Drum's RockStock making a lot of noise over the top. (Or over the top noise, maybe...)
This really rocks! There are a couple of places it seems to loose synch but mostly it's pretty tight. This is Native Instruments Abbey Road Late 60s kit.
A slow number - pretty nice playing all around.
A whole track, unedited - though it falls apart a minute from the end (the recording should have cut...). Nice bass work from DidiDodo.
Added guitar from kkddmm.
Analogue Drums RockStock... oh and a bit of a trainwreck on my part at the end...
ns_kit7 Rock brushes (with Full kick) plus some nice guitar work.
A simple approach is often the best. Here's ns_kit7 Rock/sticks doing nothing particularly exciting.
Keeping it simple - the timing here is a lot better than the first effort but the volume of the kit seems high to me.
Slight syncopation and nice bass work.
Bass and keys (anon and ekeynox), plus ns_kit7 Rock kit with sticks and an interesting beat.
Brush kit to accompany the bass and keys. I think some of the kit pieces need some adjustment... that's my excuse for the clangs and bangs, anyway...
Mellowness strikes back. This is is Acoustic Drums' RockStock. Still anon on bass and ekeynox on keys with a couple of minor additions.
A bit of kit quick change, starting with Native Instruments Abbey Road Late 60s. neimad's clipping a bit but I did get him to turn his input down after this one.
Over onto the next - Analogue Drums RockStock for a "drum solo" (and some dodgy time keeping) - the recording kept going because of the level of background hum.
All change again as I moved onto ns_kit7 (naturaldrumkit) Rock kit with brushes (and Full kick). Manu_Z joined us briefly with some spacey sounds.
First of two cuts now on ns_kit7 Rock kit with sticks
Second edit from the same session.
A quick one on the ninjam server with ns_kit7 (Rock/brushes) and Sharon_oZ on bass.
A bit of a warm up, moving onto ADRS (think) with cyberdog joined on keys.
Kit change mid-track - well, 10 mins in - onto ns_kit7 Rock/sticks. This is 15 minutes of variations on the theme we'd established, with various drop outs and in along the way
Sharon_oZ had to leave us for a while so we took the opportunity for something a little different. Another piece on the brush kit.
It was going so well until the train-wreck... Quite a nice groove.
Three cuts with some nice bass work, starting with this bit of slow funk.
Second of three cuts, still funky but with some heavier drumming.
The final cut from this set, mostly to show me switching from sticks to brushes to get the mellower sound needed. Shame it didn't hang together longer.
Most of a track that sounds pretty nice... and vaguely familiar.
I think this is the first time I've posted a cut with ns_kit7's Rock kit played with brushes. As ever with ns_kit7, it drew the "Is that a real kit?" question (from another e-drummer - Magnus; we had a nice chat later on).
Two edits from this session with LV on bass and me on (clap!) Native Instruments Abbey Road Late 60s 1.1 Update Full Kit (to give it it's fullest name). Nice bass! This cut is just sort of messing around a bit.
This is for real, a bass line to die for from LV and me not doing too badly comping and filling. I had to go just after Krillo arrived.
Slow, slow and blue. It takes some time to build up... then fades off at the end neatly. Unedited, too!
iiiiii getting down on that bass thang.
An atmospheric track, with my signature NL Late 60s error (clap!) at the start. This was followed by a bit of wallowing and then some Deep Purple - my Ian Paice impression is rubbish, so you don't get to hear that!
Hit that punk rock. Cranking the BPM up to 140, here are me on ns_kit7 and iiiii making some noise! Not always synchronised but fun.
Getting even heavier than the punk track and with more style.
Still fast, still RockStock, now with added bass from neimad, giving it some Focus (maybe?).
After some time over on the Late 60 Kit, AutoJam clearly decided this was the end of the road for the trio.
Oubien on keys, me trying to find the appropriate way to accompany using ns_kit7.
I think it's ajx taking over from Oubien on this.
jackline, I think, on bass is more audible here, bringing us up to four parts. Nice!
More players but it takes a while to get going.
A bit later in the same session and a somewhat different feel.
A bit of a fun romp with _Mix_ on guitar and me on Analogue Drums' RockStock.
Over onto ns_kit7 (natural drum kit) now for a short rocking edit. Nice to have a bass player on.
treys on keys with some "classic ninjam" jamming.
Dutch Guitarist playing... guitar..! And AutoSong hitting the end of its recording buffer, which is why it stops when it does.
Here is the first of four excerpts with Kanurider on guitar, all in a heavy vein. The kit on all today's recordings is ns_kit7 (natural drum kit)'s "Rock Kit" with a fantastically detailed hi-hat.
Kanurider changed tone a few times during the recording from which these excerpts are taken. We didn't get synchronised as well as Monday, unfortunately.
It was a day with more than just all out hard metal - we managed some heavy rock, too! I even experimented with some different kick rhythms.
More classic rock with Kanurider.
Here is the first of a set of seven cuts with Kanurider, all great to listen to and all great fun at time. Thanks!
Second cut from the same session as the first and this is heavier, if anything. RockStock proving itself thumping and resounding in this mix (autojam getting something right).
Five minutes more of heaviness with Kanurider. I think this set with Kanu shows how 32 bpi makes for more interesting music than 16 bpi.
Another hard-edged edit from a set using NI Abbey Road Late 60s kit. I've got a Kontakt patch set up so I can switch quickly between RockStock and Late 60s now, which is nice.
The highlight of the day, I think. Kanurider said "I liked the song we just made" after this. And I have to agree. This is a piece of music. It may wear its genre on its sleeve and have its influences showing brazenly but it was really great fun playing it. (Back on RockStock - you can tell by the hihat more than anything else.)
Not quite all of this because autojam seems to have got bored before the end and chopped it off. Otherwise uneditted.
We had been missing other musicians - especially someone on bass. Finally a few more people turned up and Arn_nonA took the bass line - the level is a bit low unfortunately.
Slow blue jam, on RockStock with the Mapex Brass Master snare.
More rocking with the RockStock kit, royer on lead and marcusbazz on bass.
Henry Mancini would turn pink. I'm certain we had the interval the wrong length here, which was the source of the confusion. Anyway, plenty of improvisation around a well known theme.
Nice guitar sound.
A rare event in recent times: a jam that autojam's created that I can leave unedited. This is more of titi on guitar, me on ns_kit7.
A first rag with derLokkas on keys.
More ragtime with derLokkas and some accompaniment from Nacho. Levels are low here, sorry.
It's been some time since I put a drum solo up. So here's a drum solo. Today was all on ns_kit7 (natural drum kit as it's now known) with a touch of gain and compression.
derLokkas called it jazz but I don't know. Maybe it is...
We then spent half an hour rehearsing - this is the "final rehearsal session"...
The first take came out fairly well.
We did a second take and it came out very different.
A second short taste of things to come.
Grand jazz blues jam with pppp on bass and Holborn on keys, with a few guest appearances, perhaps (I was busy!). 130bpm 48bpi, and RockStock with Mapex Brass Master snare.
A (quiet) opener before moving on to something a little faster.
Taking it slow and Buzzz shines. (I'm a bit off here and there.)
Buzzz not quite in sync with the interval on this but it's interesting enough.
Jazzy vibe time from Holborn and pppp. I join in after a couple of minutes.
Here's the second go at playing a piece - still didn't get it quite right...
Third time lucky. We managed to get it together this time -- and even finished with a bit of boogie, just as I had to leave, unfortunately.
First of two extracts from a 140bpm, 48bpi bit of rock'n'roll. On keys is Samthegreat. The guitarist is DirtyDeeds. Took while to get this settled in and I'm still just getting into the groove. Drums are RockStock.
And a second outing in the same vein on NI Abbey Road Late 60s kit. Sam's gone, this is just DirtyDeeds, I think. I left a bit of drums alone on the end as the track's so short.
Might as well have the whole of this. Tuk you can't really hear until the end -- then you find out where the "background hiss" is coming from. This is RockStock doing electronica..!
Here's what Tuk sounds like without the hissing. The other thing about these is we were playing at 130bpm and a phrase length of 32bpi - 8 bars - which is a lot more natural.
This time around it's Makelen_guitar who was having hiss problems (and on two stereo channels). This runs through a few sections (as you'd expect with a 14 minute jam). Just under four minutes in, Makelen drops out for a while and the mix clears. Rather untidy end, unfortunately. I think I changed over to NI Abbey Road Late 60s kit for this.
Wildly unruly but incredible fun. Royer, Kman and Olive1329 burning away. This is a long session with quite a few breaks but stay with it. NI Abbey Road Late 60 kit.
Royer rocking some more. This is a seven minute edit and has several "parts" within, though moves quite well between them.
A fragment of sanity. It lasted under a minute.
If I remember correctly, this was fastero on guitar.
A slowly building jam, first part of a session that went pretty well. Only had to cut 14 seconds off the front of this and about 5 minutes of noodling between the two cuts.
Here's the second edit - a longer cut, a bit rough in places but worth a listen. Today's drums were supplied by ns_kit7 with some light compression.
Piano music with kenzok. Good jamming today all told.
You get this anyway, despite its numerous flaws, as a demonstration of how ignoring the BPI can work when there are just two people jamming. I've not posted the session with three of us playing a 16 bar phrase in 16 BPI (4 bars)... It's actually very funny... :D
This is really nice - shame the start and end were so messy they needed cutting.
A spacey edit with some Hawkwind overtones, from a 50 minute jam. More of this...
And here's the follow up to the spacey track. A pretty long one with a few near collapses but it limps to a great ending... :)
First of two edits from a 25 minute session. Bit flaky in places but, hey...
And here is the second edit. On RockStock - I was all for stadium-filling ballads but couldn't really drag much out of everyone...
The atmosphere eventually started to heat up. Levels here are a bit odd and this wanders a little bit but it's not bad. Over onto NI Abbey Road Late 60s kit now.
A short edit from a 12 minute set. The whole track is pretty nice but a little all over the place. Seek it out of you like this bit.
Another long fun set - but I had to leave. This is really in two or three parts but I've left it all together. There's more after this cuts off, though (without me).
Not quite the whole thing -- it took a while to start and didn't really end cleanly -- but this was a really nice jam.
A short edit this time, from a longer session. I'm not even sure what style you'd call this? No one being particularly serious, though.
Jazz, the universal language.
How a jam comes together - left unedited. We finished "together" - more or less - too! Lovely sax from manu, keys from JooZz.
More sax and keys, this time an edit -- took about three minutes to take off. Oh yes, today is RockStock with a Mapex Brass Master snare.
Mellow and cool playing from Nacho.
Dirty and funky bass from DenDerty_russia.
Swing with bass. Short and sweet.
An up tempo number. Bit of a laugh really -- DenDerty upped the bpm to 150 then we both just went for it!
Just a little bit funky. Pretty nice jam. NI Abbey Road Late 60s Kit.
Left unedited despite some defects. Also, mixed very to a very low level for some reason.
An electro groove with DP110 looping his stuff! Cool jam, though I could have played more accurately in places.....
Sax. And bass. Just dripping with goodness.
Quick jam on Native Instruments Abbey Road Early 60s drum kit. Plus a compressor as I was having troubles with the levels.
Edit one of two from a rather rambling set. Back on Late 60s Kit.
This second cut is slightly different and fairly short.
Way, way out there. Sometimes one of these random sessions is so good I have to include it. Thanks to _m1k for this fun set.
Gq Fu on bass, drums are NI Late 60s.
nafquo on keys, same session - NI Late 60s Kit.
A long session that resulted in a pair of short edits. This is the first. Somewhat different style from my normal but it's the Late 60s (NI Abbey Road Kit)...
Fairly fun second clip from a long set.
A drum solo - well, the nearest thing. No idea why ninbot decided to record this, MUCKL's level was zero so I'd have expected it to be lost. Anyway, it's nice to hear just RockStock (w/Mapex Brass Master snare).
Unedited but flaky in parts -- worth a listen, though.
I wish people would stop telling me I'm too quiet and to turn the drums up... krue really is great on this, though, so forgive the mix.
I'm being lazy and not editing these. A long and varied jam with some good bits.
First of three edits. Back on a more or less unprocessed ns_kit7 and I like it. All of this session (all three edits) has some weird noises going on as well as the rocking main theme.
Second edit starts with a "bridge" section from the first edit before moving on to develop the theme a little. The audience ("anon") asked "Is this live?" - we're hoping it was an awe-struck question...
This final edit from a long session takes a slightly different path from the first two.
It took a long time to get to this point in the jam -- nothing early hung together long enough. You'll see what I mean in this edit: plenty of drops and recoveries, along with style changes.
First edit of two with just me and metalcicc; 123456 was having severe problems, so I've had to cut around those.
Second edit from the set with metalcicc and me. I was trying to get some 140bpm practice. Not too bad but I need to work on the kick.
First edit from a second set with metalcicc, up to the point where the hiss stops us. But we carried on...
And the second part, with a lot of hiss for most of it, then a fairly nice bit, then ends with nova buzzing, unfortunately. But a really good jam.
Something with a different swing to it. Quite long and varied.
This gets cut off just as it starts. Let's see if I can find where it continues.
Here's the continuation for what it's worth.
Jamming around an idea with a strong PF influence? I'm very high in the mix unfortunately. On ns_kit7 - with rather screwed up processing applied. I had complaints there weren't enough dynamics. That'll be the compressor and limiters, I guess!
Complete and unedited jazz-feel set. Shame Guyfox dropped out after so few notes, too. Still ns_kit, still too loud...
Attempting a shuffle at 130bpm. I'm slowly getting better... Levels seem all over the place in this - also listen for the "feedback", someone has NINJAM playing through speakers being picked up either by a guitar pick-up or a mic. Remember - use headphones when jamming on NINJAM! Back on NI Late 60s Kit, which seems to get very positive responses (though I still feel it's over-processed: done well, though...). A great Friday's jamming.
Slow and smokey jam. I think it's just me and anon. This was ns_kit7 through lots of processing. That idea got abandoned, though.
Southern blues? Well, I don't know. pa and Alpha_Wave playing nicely. Sounds like ns_kit7 on this track.
Manu on bass loop, titi on sax, Alpha_Waves on lead, me on NI Late 70s kit. This was a great work out and a lot of fun. My timing goes badly wrong in a couple of places but the bass loop keeps everyone else tight.
Good lead and bass guitar sounds, it's a shame nao_mw was so low in the mix! NI Late 60s kit again.
Not sure how to describe this style. nao_mw's bass is a bit clearer here. This is only half the session but the rest didn't live up to this. We lost euga briefly whilst he went to "tune up". Unfortunately, I still couldn't hear nao_mw well enough to hear what he was playing, so I didn't quite support him well to start with.
A slow and cool jam. The mix isn't always consistent and NI Late 60s Kit is a little prominent. (Is that a problem?)
Another slow and cool jam. Ends quite heavily. More NI Late 60s Kit. (Edit from a long session.)
Heavier and more upbeat here, with nicely triumphal bit in it. (Second edit.)
Best of a bad bunch. This is RockStock but I cannot remember which snare I was using with it. Plenty of Room mic. BPI set to 8 by Al_GP, which is different, I guess.
Not a great jam but Grizzly does sound good... Back on faithful ns_kit7 Rock kit.
An extensive array of styles (with a few mistakes, particularly near the start). Good fun and a nice bass sound in parts. This is NI Abbey Road Late 60s Kit.
A short but heavy jam. This is NI Abbey Road Late 60s kit, reset to factory settings and the volume adjusted a bit. Sounds pretty good. So much I decided to leave this un-edited and post, despite my dreadful timing.
A long jam - and not all good, but there you are. More of NI Abbey Road Late 60s Kit. I decided I best spend a good while playing it, as I think lack of familiarity can breed contempt, too!
For the guitar tone that Bert has. Wonderful!
A few minutes of rock from a longer, fun session -- the rest isn't up to repeated listens, though.
Experimental rock, I think you'd call it. Maybe a bit Floyd-like?
A long set with a jazzy flavour, left un-edited. It does get a little dull at times but it's not bad.
The next number one, surely? This is NI Abbey Road Late 60s Kit -- I'm still not that keen on it, for playability and expressiveness. The tone is great.
Sounds much better listening back than it did whilst playing (though I still know what I was trying to play...). Back on ns_kit7 and more singing from Mink.
A jam of two halves - both heavy! The first half hangs together really well. The second is more a collection of good tries.
An abstract - if not entirely random - jam with perreko. I like it...
A second abstract jam with perreko also on drums (real kit) with some contribution from strat_universe. I really like the ending.
Whole jam (autofaded) but with the wrong choice for the hi-hat closed sample - tight closed - and various parts of my TrapKAT showing some need of retraining...
Loud and heavy and 15 minutes long. I arrive about a minute in and the set takes off about two minutes later, only falling apart a minute or so before the end. Featuring special guest singer!
I'm too loud really but what a funky bass.
A taste of a short set. A hot day and a hot bass.
Most of a funky set on my first outing with Analogue Drums' RockStock.
Swinging but in need of a brush on the snare! Manu asked me not to play the snare and was right - the stick sound would have been wrong. But a brush would have been nice.
More from the same set - cool jazz.
Simple stuff that I can cope with. Emmanuel was incredible earlier in this set but I really showed how I'm not at that level. This has a pretty nice vibe, though.
A slow and mellow jam, levels pretty good. I love both guitar sounds.
A good jam but it took a while to really come together (this is a 10 minute edit). My level is hotter than I thought. (I thought emmanuel was too hot -- sorry!)
A trio set with a fairly simple bass line and pretty busy drums. Levels aren't too bad.
The first of two edits from a 10 minute jam with anon. Or an anon. Anyway. It felt very good to be drumming again!
The second edit. This one is just ns_kit7 - nice to be able to hear just the kit, I thought.
Wooo, nice! This is "Popsticks" from Analogue Drums on its first outing; different dynamics. But that doesn't excuse some of my timing ;). Just can't think fast enough... First good jam since my enforced break.
A little light grooving. Back on ns_kit7.
Second edit from same set as above. This one features nun more heavily and gets weird, heavy and cool.
Slow and powerful. Some wonderful bass and guitar work, with great support from the keys. Delicious. (And nearly ended.)
A wonderful cacophony - I'm playing synth here. I think it's MU.LAB "ROM" synth with various effects... Or it could be SuperWave p8... I forget.
A second unedited set piece (26mins) with me making strange noises on synth, doorthe also making some noises on another synth and perreko mastering the percussion.
Very quiet; bit more soul than I usually do. Lovely guitar sounds.
Louder. Bluesier. Mellow. And -- amazingly -- had an ending!
For all its defects, this was a lot of fun; not ns_kit7 for a change - it might have been Big Mono from Analog Drums or SessionLoops' "DF_Vol.1_YouToo_Kit".
35 minutes of varying fun; ns_kit7 mangled in various ways.
An interesting rhythm, even if I do screw up frequently. Could have benefitted from a touch of reverb, maybe.
Short piece before the jam fell apart.
A full hour of jamming madness. Mostly me on drums with some occasional assistance. It's a varied set but much to be enjoyed.
It's a rare privilege to jam with Puffer and polmac, so I had to share this short clip.
A small experimental piece.
Three minutes off the front of an hour's jam. Lovely and mellow. Shame the lead was too loud after this.
Smokin' jam...
Said at the time to be reminiscent of Floyd (Pink).
This set started 11 mins earlier - you just get to hear the good bit. It rather fell apart afterwards.
Really good fun jam with treys (Chow started hissing about 6m in, sadly - though I guess we were nearly done).
A rocking jam with treys and crew.
Not the best but not too bad, I guess. Nice piano sound but needs more instrumentation.
Sometimes a jam sounds so much better on listening back than you thought it would at the time!
First of four edits from a fun session. Blues 1. Levels could be better.
Second edit - another blues jam, starts with 12 bars drum intro :) This is a long jam!
The third cut is a rockier number. Still some issues with a loud guitarist... (that goes without saying...)
Finally another blues jam, with "blues" present -- how could we refuse?
A bit of rock and roll. polmac just sounds so good.
Serious funk. Gorgeous bit at 3m40 to 4m00.
Fairly silly but quite fun at the time.
Fun - Ste getting some great sounds from his Line6 Pod. Me on Kontakt3 for the first time.
Good fun session.
Bluesy jam.
Takes a while to hang together but it's a good session. Some audio glitching here. /Sigh/
Really enjoyed this jam. Great fun.
First of two edits from an interesting jam.
Second edit.
Rescued from an overloud lead, this is NIGHTCHILD on bass. Quite pleasant, really, yes?
Way cool jam :)
Heavy jam!
Not entirely sure this comes under CC2.5 – though I doubt Dave and the guys would mind.... There's a lot of good jamming with pa that Saturday!
Not a heavy jam.
Slow start into some rocking blues.
Shame about the levels - two minutes of fun jamming with some guff at the end.
Edit by tom from NINBOT; pretty damn good, actually!
Several good jams in one! Could have done with pa being louder at the end.
Blues, pa playing perfectly, me not so tight.
Blues, pa still playing perfectly and I'm getting better...
Blues, get past the stumble at the start and it's great! Picks up towards the end.
Nearly five minutes from a longer sessions. I love the sound on this.
First of a collection of edits from a really good jazzy session...
(2),
(3),
(4).
And some more from a different session...
(2).
The session is still going... but fell apart briefly.
After road crash (before fastero).
I was beating the kit up before this, with NC playing mellow. Really bad behaviour on my part. Thankfully NC decided he'd rock out with me. Cool! :)
Nice bit of jamming here, polmac I always have to give special mention to. Great sounds!
Heavier jam.
A very nice cool groove.
More rocking.
Nice piece with pece playing a great guitar line. Edited so you hear me take over from the backing track.
Slowly builds into a very funky jam. About 12mins long with some really nice playing. (And some over-playing. Life is not one long solo.) I'm maybe a touch too loud when giving it some, too.
Stumbles for about 45 seconds, then a good jam through to about a minute before the end. Left un-edited.
Takes a while to get going but it's a nice session. My timing wanders in places. Also takes a while to end - mostly due to hum, I think.
Something...
Jazz with a touch of funk.
Funk! It takes off after about 3 minutes but I don't get my level sorted till nearer the end.
Boogie! Continuation of previous but with tweety joining on lead guitar.
This is what it's all about...
Sort of bluesy jam thing. Sloppy in an almost appealing kind of way.
Very nice piece. But careful with those crashes.
A bit heavier.
Crazy eastern thing. Volume and timing dodgy. Nicely agressive, though. Squelch. Nice guitar around 8m on. Crazy singing towards the end but, hey!
This is hot!
Andy looping crazily, me trying to comp with some interest. The mix is... interesting... Wanders off... Needs editing and remixing. Oh well.
nun takes a jam to places you generally dare not imagine...
Not the greatest - I'm way too loud - but the best of a bad bunch.
You need to wait about 1m30 before this starts to work. Then it's a rocking riff. It could have done with a good bass line.
Fairly nice rocky jam. Interesting rhythm. I enter around the 2m30 mark.
A hot start to what was a good set. First of three edits. Nothing for a few weeks and then a great jam session. Ah, I was really buzzing after this! Thanks folks.
Another hot edit from this set.
A great set ends with a more varied (in style) section (well, there's more but I went for a cuppa...
And after a while, the groove returned.
Some edits, starting with some heavy drumming to complement a heavy riff.
Starts of as above but goes off in a variety of directions. A mixed bag. Stick with it for the middle bit.
And something a bit different to end this set of edits.
Very subtle playing. Very nice and mellow.
And more - but more prolonged and involved.
And still more, with my levels adjusted a bit so I can play more freely at this volume
Something different again.
And more different (after missing a 20 min session). Builds up slowly. Then has a silly ending.
Fairly groovy.
This is just the start. Two good hours jamming with AndyMc. Here's a few highlights. AndyMc builds up a few layers of loops then starts playing bass over the top.
Another bit, chopped at the start as it's "part 2" of a 33 minute jam.
Second part of another long jam... Rocks out from around 6m50.
Hard rock.
A long set. Not a patch on Saturday but this randomness is the best of Sunday.
Warming up. Pretty hot, in fact. VIP_F_S_R on lead.
This is burning. Really good fun.
Now with Zooloo on bass as well. Nice sound.
More jamming - cut from a slightly longer session that just stopped.
You get the whole of this one, even though I don't join until about 8m30 because it sounds so good.
Nice groove.
Some dub, with me joining in about 4m30 in. I get mellower as time moves on.
Sometimes you have to take the rough with the smooth.
Slow blues jam. I'd forgotten about this. Really nice. Second half picks up speed and volume.
A fun (and somewhat familiar sounding) jam.
Hard rocking, loud guitars and a lot of fun.
A singer turns up. Session goes okay until just before the end (after I've left...)
Jazz - quiet, comping.
Starts off badly but improves a lot.
Short session but nice light rock.
A good session resulting in two edits.
The second edit from the same session as above.
Saturday was a good day, in fact.
Although an edit here might have been better than the full session. I leave about half-way.
Incredibly fun to play, left us all feeling great.
Skip the first 25 minutes of this one; I tried to do an edit but for some reason it didn't work.
A heavy start with a lighter middle and a collapse at the end...
A fairly cool groove cut from a longer set.
Rather odd. Nice, though. I ching.
Conga madness hits NINJAM. This is the last 15 minutes of a 1h AutoJam recording. The session continued but didn't really live much longer.
Drums and lead get heavy.
A jazzy thing (with distortion).
A bass line.
Money for nothing, really. Trying to play 7 in 4 doesn't work. Stays a bit prog..! Worth it just for the flute.
Fairly funky and 22 minutes long.
A funky start to a 35 minute set that went down hill.
Start of set.
Premature end of set.
Some unstructured jazz thing.
More unstructured. Is it jazz? More like prog... (Edit from a 1h session.)
Another wandering jam -- must have been the weather.
Friday night down the Sub Club on Second Life (well, about 5 minutes of it...) -- 9pm on Friday. Well, if I can play keyboards... I can drum using the keyboard, I guess...
From a weekend with little to commend it, this edit isn't bad.
This is me playing keyboard sounds... 9pm on a Friday, I'm not going to be drumming...
Later on in the same set. Trimmed at the point I left. This one's really quite good.
Short and sweet.
Slow, blue and jazzy. Really nice. Winds down from about 10 mins in. Wait until around 18m for some rock'n'roll.
Hot Helio Jazz.
Weird stuff.
30 minutes in to a set and still going. The sound quality isn't great but it's starting to sound pretty together. (The bass had been noisy since the start.) Finished around 7mins in. There is a new lease of life around 14mins in. (Edits are not working on material of this era.)
Shredding. Carried over from a previous set, this gets going again after the 4m mark and keeps on till around 16m before slowly giving up. Quite a fun session. It carries on...
Longer funky jam.
Short funky jam.
Cool jazz number.
Quite a nice one, takes a little while to take off.
Slow and blue.
Weird gear.
Rather heavy session.
Funky jazz session. One of the few times I'm not playing ns_kit7, I think.
Jazzy session. Love the vibes.
Not bad - sounds wonderfully together... until it briefly stumbles. Shame about autojam's levelling. (Some kit other than ns_kit7, I think.)
Cool session but for the last couple of minutes.
Reminiscent of a certain 80s song starting with K.
Pretty cool jam session.
Nice, smooth rolling jam.
A second edit from the same session as above.
If you ignore the drums... this is pretty good!
I don't remember who was singing.
Fairly bad mix (or "I'm too loud"?) but a nice heavy jam anyway!
I tried an edit but they're currently not working, so you get the whole thing. Okayish in parts.
Sweet guitars. Stomping drums (I like to think I'm more subtle now...)
Heavy, immature but pretty together.
Short but fun.
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